Like Vienna, Budapest is known for its vibrant coffee house culture. There are beautiful, opulent halls from the 1920s, as well as every imaginable version of hipster cafés. One of them was “Peet and the Flat White”, which has now moved to Augustenstrasse in Munich.
His plan, says Péter “Peet” Bujdosó, has always been to have a café in Budapest and one in Munich. He has friends here and has been visiting the city for ten years. He was looking for a good location for five years until he finally found the space on Augustenstrasse in the spring. He then sold his business in Budapest and completely relocated to Germany. Why? “Victor Orban.” He doesn’t have to say more about it, he thinks.
So now he’s bringing his specialty coffee to men and women in Maxvorstadt. In “Peet and the Flat White” there is everything that caffeine friends desire, from cold brew to French brew to filter coffee. Always two different roasts, one light, fruity and one more chocolaty. The tall old building is painted and tiled in a dark emerald green reminiscent of southern European bays. In front of the door there are a few seats on small chairs and stools – they are quite sufficient, because the offer does not go very far beyond the essential: the coffee.
Peet and the Flat White is a coffee shop where patrons stop by for a cup of their favorite drink and eat a piece of cake or a cinnamon roll, chat a bit and move on.
What is there and how much does it cost?
Of course there is a flat white (4.20 euros), but also its European counterpart, a cappuccino (3.80); for puristic connoisseurs the espresso (2.50) or a cortado (2.80). The coffee, which comes from a decorative La Marzocco, is of course very good. All drinks are also available in an iced version. For non-coffee drinkers, for example, an iced matcha latte (5.20) is a good refreshment. Or one of the Hungarian “Monyo” lemonades from the refrigerated section: the passion fruit variety, for example (3.50), tastes pleasingly natural and very refreshing.
A few seats inside, a few seats outside: The “Peet and the Flat White” is uncluttered.
(Photo: Robert Haas)
The owner’s passion: Flat White.
(Photo: Robert Haas)
Of course there are also some sweet treats.
(Photo: Robert Haas)
Of course, the stomach does not have to remain empty. The display case offers different types of banana bread, white chocolate with macadamia, for example, or one with currants (3.90), there are usually cinnamon rolls too. And the New York cheesecake (4.90) is a creamy stunner. Anyone who knows “Ginger and Gray’s” on Hessstrasse may be familiar with the contents of the display case, because “Peet and the Flat White” gets its cakes from there.
Peet’s passion, unsurprisingly, is flat white. He drinks three to four of them a day, he says. His bitch, which he immortalized in the store’s logo, is called “Fleti”. If you order this at a café counter in Budapest, you get: a flat white.
Peet and the Flat WhiteAugustenstraße 52, 80333 Munich, opening times: daily from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.